Improvement in trusses



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Letters Patent No. 108,252, dated October 11, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRUSSES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making partNof the same To all whom vit 'may4 concern Beit known thatI, JACOB GEISS, of Belleville, in the county of St. Clair and State of Illinois, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Hernia-Trusses; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and true description thereof, reference being had to the aeeompanying'drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of this improv ement will appear by reference to the subjoined description, and to the drawing, of which'- Figure 1 represents a top plan of my improved rupture-ball or pad;

' Figure 2, a side elevation; und

Figure 3, a section. 4

I use the spring A, of the usual constructive form, enveloped by a leather or other similar housing, .in order to make its pressure comfortable to the wearer, and being provided at one end thereof with a leather buckling-strap, or usual truss padding.

-At the other end of said spring A' I attach the rupture metallic pad 13, said pad, however, being first eonstrncted as follows:

' To an outer elliptieal-shaped rim, formed of anyA -suitablo material, I attach, in any propermanner, the

centavo-convex metal pad B', as clearly shown in the figures.

The object being to make the attaehmentof said rupture-ball or padadjustable in itspressure against the wearer, I connect the same to the spring A, as follows:

The end a of said spring A I provide .with a U- shaped shank, C.

At c, within the surface of said shank C, the links or small chai'ns, c.

The rupture concave ball has attached to it, by

l proper screws, dago11ally`-aeross its elliptical face, a

curved metal strip, D, as shawn in iig. 1.

` The connection of said rupture-pad B with the shank C will, therefore, be by connecting the chain attachment c' to the inside ofthe metal strip D, having first allowed said stri p to pass' between the vertical legs of the shank C. p

By thus connect-ing the rupture-pad proper to the spring A, it is plain that the pressure of said spring is suiieient to retain the rupture-pad ball iu its required place on the body, and, furthermore, by means of the link attachment, said rupture-pad is capable of following up every movement of the body, thus affording comfort and convenience to the wearer.

Having thus fully described my said invention,

The rupture-ball or pad B', ofthe constructive form, as shown, and made adjustable by link c', attached to the shank G, and used in combination with the spring A, substantially as set forth.

1n testimony of said invention, I have hereunto4 set my hand, in presence of- JACOB GEISS;

fitnesses WILLIAM H. HER'rHEL, ROBERT BURNS. 

